GEORGIA STATE COURT AWARDS SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN PREMISES LIABILITY CLAIM
Partner Carrie L. Christie and Associate Courtney Marcelo Norton won summary judgment in Putnam County State Court on April 6, 2017, in a trip-and-fall case that arose when Plaintiff, while visiting Friendship Baptist Church with her choir, ascended a single carpeted step flanked by prayer rails that led to the church’s pulpit area. The Rutherford […]
R&C Obtains a Defense Verdict
R&C Obtains a Defense Verdict On December 5, 2017 Partner David Rutherford obtained a defense verdict after a six day jury trial in federal court in Brooklyn. The plaintiff, a crew chief for an aircraft services company at JFK Airport, alleged she had suffered a permanently debilitating back injury when the door to a Boeing […]
R&C Obtains a Defense Verdict
R&C Obtains a Defense Verdict On March 29, 2017 Partner David Rutherford and New York Associate Diana Mulderig obtained a defense verdict following a two week trial in Superior Court in Middlesex County, New Jersey. The plaintiff alleged that he suffered a permanent knee injury and resulting inability to work, along with PTSD, due to […]
Recent Case Results
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions. Cicero, ad Atticum IX, 66 b.c. RECENT CASE RESULTS
R&C Obtains a Defense Verdict
R&C Obtains a Defense Verdict On June 13, 2016 Partner David Rutherford and New York Associate Lauren Bryant obtained a defense verdict after a week long trial in federal court in White Plains, New York. The plaintiff, a nine year old boy, alleged that he had been sexually abused on repeated occasions at a daycare […]